Weldon Says Witness Will Tell of Destroying Data About Potential Terrorists

John Batchelor Show.com (from The Congressional Quarterly) ^ | Posted September 09, 2005 | By John M. Donnelly

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[Past Your Eyes]

Maybe in coming weeks, the Katrina mess will move a little further toward the back of the stove and this situation will gain the attention that it deserves.

[petercooper]

[Perdogg]

I just turned to stone.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The face that launched Sandy Burglar.

[DainBramage]

Gore Lick

[Dark Skies]

bttt

[nuconvert]

Isn't his sentencing coming up soon?

[CarlEOlsoniii]

BTTT

[zeebee]

Can some insightful Freeper please hypothesize about what was really going on here?

[Roccus]

I know they upped his fine from 10K to 50K, but I don't know if that's the end of it.

[Roccus]

As one 'old fart' to another, I wish I shared your optimism.

[VastRWCon]

save

[Reactionary]

"...U.S. persons' names."

Notice that they weren't citizens but "persons."

The Clinton swine were protecting the terrorists.

[texas_mrs]

Bump

[DooDahhhh]

The Clinton swine wanted "no mention of trouble with terrorists" Ignore it and let's look good. Well, thank you, that is not the job description of
American president!

[Clioman]

There has been some speculation in the blogosphere that the data miners were TOO good at their work, meaning that in addition to finding links between Islamic terrorists and US citizens, that they also found links between US politicians and foreign nationals, and that those links involved major $ transfers. [Remember Sen. Fred Thompson's trying to connect dots between Clinton campaign fund donations and what appeared to be big foreign spenders w/links to Chinese intelligence services? The mysterious transfer of Loral space technology to China (a major Dem. donor was involved), and China's interest in acquiring control of both the Panama Canal and facilities in the port of Long Beach? This is the kind of stuff that data mining is intended to look at...]

[Amalie]

I would say that the bureaucracy in both the FBI and the DoD knew something about this data collection effort that transcended legal boundaries, and they either completed what they needed to find out (unrelated to Atta), or they found out out something they were not supposed to know. For example, perhaps the mining effort was being used against Clinton's political enemies, but instead found out about some Clinton malfeasance. Tinfoil hat off, I don't know.

Regardless, it should be put in the context of then-upcoming 2000 election, not just 9/11 - if this was done late in the year FOLLOWING Bush's win, it will be a very serious charge indeed. This would mean that there a deliberate effort to keep the Bush WH from have access to the material and the science. If it was earlier, I would think it became too hot to handle politically. Note that it was the civilian contractors involved who dictated the data be destroyed; we have still not heard who they were or who they were actually working for - if they reported to the Reno DoJ, the DoD, the CIA, etc. The contractors were not military employees beholden to the nation itself.

So, at this point, while we know it generated info on Atta, we have no clue what else was contained in those 2.5 tetras. It has come to light because of Atta, but my feeling is that he is a merely a symptom, not a cause. This could indeed become a huge scandal if anyone can honestly get to the bottom of it.

I know that Weldon is sincere, but as for 'Magic Bullet' Specter and the others politicos looking into it, I am not hopeful we will ever get to the truth. There are too many powerful people in DC that could be implicated if someone begins asking the right questions. As for the witnesses and hands-on employees, those guys had better be watching their backs; people can get killed for knowing about this sort of thing...

[Balding_Eagle]

Thanks.